Singapore : the unexpected nation /
Deals with Singapore's transition from a British Crown Colony to a state in the Federation of Malaysia, and expulsion from the Federation to become a separate independent nation.
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Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
c2008.
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| Series: | History of nation-building series
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings: From Temasek to Singapore
- Race, history and nationalism
- Contestants and contesting visions
- The accidental chief minister
- The terminal chief minister
- The embattled prime minister
- Merger: contesting ownership and principles
- Terms of disendearment
- Dare to be equal
- The way to survive
- National service: the price of independence
- Politics of education
- Home ownership, national stability and the new middle classes
- University and nation
- Toh's nation-building thrust
- Nantah: between community and nation
- Self-renewal: talents for a tough act
- The consensual prime minister
- Confucianism, Christianity, Chineseness
- Singapore dreams, Singapore dilemmas
- The hyphenated Singaporean
- The unexpected nation.